Top 1200 Roman Gods Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

The word dream match is thrown around quite a bit, and I mean if you think about it. There's all these possibilities, like what if Edge could face Roman Reigns or Seth Rollins? Or, a guy like AJ Styles.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.' In our ignorance of the values that form part of our history and heritage, we Americans have become perpetual children.

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.

Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which, from the reign of Arcadius to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, subsisted one thousand and fifty-eight years in a state of premature and perpetual decay.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.

There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.

How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

Life is one of Gods greatest Journeys, But Death is the next great Adventure.

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.

The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself.

O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.

For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

I auditioned for 'The Rainmaker.' Nothing. I auditioned for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' Nothing. 'Antigone' was my big break. I got a part as a Roman guard. I carried a spear.

Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned to support a gamester, a drunkard, or a libertine, unless he were guilty of homicide, poison, or sacrilege, in which cases the marriage, as it should seem, might have been dissolved by the hand of the executioner.

There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which... I have studied that stuff and I simply don't think that has any mileage at all biblically, theologically, and I've got some friends who are very disappointed that I say that.

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.

Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.

Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my colleagues in other fields that I was interested in things outside mathematics. This lead quickly to very pleasant relationships.

Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.

When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.

For all these internet fans out there that want to hate Roman Reigns and say, 'No, we're standing up because we don't like him...' Few people in the history of this business walk into an arena and everybody stands on their feet - everybody.

Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach.

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.

I have painted gods, and goddesses too, and my favourite is Ganesha and Radha Krishna.

If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.

The Hindus have worshipped from ancient times the baby Krishna in the arms of Virgin Devaki just as the Roman catholics [sic] worship Madona [sic] with baby Christ.

All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.